1913 Baseball World Tour Japanese Rule Book Presented to Charles
Comiskey....

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1913 Baseball World Tour Japanese Rule Book Presented to Charles
Comiskey. Though the 1934 Tour of Japan, with its cast of
legends like Ruth, Gehrig and Foxx, enjoys status as the most
famous of foreign baseball tours, the practice of taking to the
high seas with the sport's best was already decades old at that
point. Here we encounter a relic from Hall of Fame executive
Charles Comiskey's personal collection acquired during his first of
two world tours in 1913 and 1924. The Japanese language volume
provides only a few words of English, notably "Base Ball Rules" on
the cover and a handwritten inscription on inside cover from a
representative of a Japanese university representative reading,
"To Mr. C.A. Comiskey with best wishes and respect, M. Naoki,
Keio Univ, Japan." The 170-page softcover volume exhibits
typical handling wear but presents very well and remains solidly
bound with damage only to a pair of fold out pages and dampstaining
to the cover.

The Comiskey Collection

It's a name that remains synonymous with Chicago White Sox
baseball, and one properly immortalized in Cooperstown bronze. The
collection that appears in the lots that follow spans six decades
of the team's history, beginning with what may be the earliest
ChiSox document in private hands, and continuing on to feature a
wide assortment of material from sons J. Louis and Charles A.
Comiskey II, who carried on the ownership of the club following
their father's passing. Many of the key moments in team history are
memorialized, from the team's first World Series appearance in
1906, to the famous World Tour of 1913-14, to the club's eventual
sale to another Hall of Fame executive, Bill Veeck, in 1959. All
items were stored for decades in the attic of Charles Junior's home
before they were acquired by our consignor, and they make their
auction debut here.